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Box 129

 Container

Contains 9 Collections and/or Records:

Jefferson Davis Letters, 1888

 File — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series: This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates: 1888

Jefferson Davis to (Pollie). Beauvoir., 1888 January 17

 Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents Writes of his anxiety over state of Addison’s health (son-in-law).
Dates: 1888 January 17

Jefferson Davis to Gordon L. Ford. Beauvoir, Mississippi., 1888 April 20

 Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series: This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates: 1888 April 20

Jefferson Davis to H. C. Harrison. Beauvoir, Mississippi., 1888 April 24

 Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series: This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates: 1888 April 24

Jefferson Davis to Maj. W. T. Walthall. Beauvoir, Mississippi., 1888 May 22

 Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents Letter demanding his right to all material which his assistant is gathering for manuscript.
Dates: 1888 May 22

Jefferson Davis to Miss Graham. Beauvoir, Mississippi., 1888 August 4

 Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series: This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates: 1888 August 4

J. A. Early to Jefferson Davis. Cotton Factors. Nos. 64 & 66 Baronne, Mississippi., 1888 August 8

 Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents Writes that the cigar holder he is sending was made by his own hands out of buckeye that grew in the Allegheny mountains of Virginia.
Dates: 1888 August 8

Jefferson Davis to J. D. Ramsey. Beauvoir, Mississippi., 1888 October 30

 Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents A letter of advice as to his course in life.
Dates: 1888 October 30

Jefferson Davis to L. Narcisse Prudhome. Beauvoir, Mississippi., 1888 December 28

 Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents States that he does not have any of the cotton that he describes although he is still a planter and has several varieties of cotton.
Dates: 1888 December 28